Word: sloping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than 1,000 pages of reading per week, I simply don't have the three or four hours it takes to read a trashy novel, or the 10 or more that it can take to appreciate a good one. And one novel can lead to another, creating a slippery slope...
...Once you leave it up to the whim of one individual, then it's a slippery slope," he said...
Even civil libertarians, however, are hesitant to acknowledge this. Their usual arguments against censorship are practical, not moral. They focus on the slippery slope, fearing that censorship of action movies will lead to censorship of "Schindler's List." Defense of First Amendment freedoms is generally presented as a matter of enlightened self-interest. It's expedient: If I assume power to censor your words, you may someday assume power to censor mine. Professional civil libertarians (I include myself among them) tend to be liberals; they consider race and sex discrimination immoral and not just inexpedient (a waste of human resources...
...seems to us that the opponents of physician-assisted suicide, those who have been most wary about it, have at least as much at stake in passing such legislation as the proponents," he told the Globe. "They should help pass a statute that prevents a slide down the slippery slope...
...that Payne put up his lot and $100,000 of his mother's property as collateral. Even so, Payne is still about $350,000 shy of what he needs to begin construction--and losing ground. Vacant, the land is declining in value. "It puts the applicant on a slippery slope," says Payne. "I have no income, I have no building, and I have a debt of more than $1,000 a month I hadn't had before the riots...